Hi everyone. I have been away for a short break and even better, a complete break from the BBC. Just back in time to listen to the lead story on BBC Today this morning trot out some asinine excuses for Boko Haram’s actions in Nigeria. It appears that “Poverty” and the acts of the army are to blame for the savagery carried out there. Nothing to do with Islam, oh no…..
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Is the bbc institutionallly paedophilic?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27525751
Without doubt. Telegraph today reports that… Chris Denning – former BBC Radio 1 DJ controller is (again) charged with 41 new disturbing offences (all against boys and all under the age of consent) i.e. paedophile predator. No wonder the BBC wanted the age of consent reduced to 12 (or under EU proposals reduced to just four). Very disturbing to read the charges.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10849905/Ex-Radio-One-DJ-charged-with-41-sex-offences.html
And in other news…
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/worldy-wise.html
‘Imagine what Big H said in plain language to Harding as he handed the report over.’
Dunno. But guessing ‘Big H’s’ language has been pretty colourful of late, what with one thing and another.
‘Why, with all the resources at its disposal, is the BBC news new media portfolio lagging behind Buzzfeed, the Daily Mail and many other sites internationally – having squandered…
Dude, maybe let’s just stop right there if you are trying to answer ‘why anything?’ with the BBC.
Squandering… is what they do.
It’s in their DNA.
More on that story
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2014/05/why-should-the-licence-fee-payer-fund-the-bbcs-cultural-imperialism/
Good question
BBC very lacksadaisical about the civil war kicking off in Ukraine.
“Three charred armoured infantry vehicles, their turrets blown away by powerful explosions, ”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27515514
What sort of gunmen can take out 3 APCs in attack?
Now that they’ve got the war they seemed to be pushing for where have all those voices gone which so recently were pushing for a coup in Kiev? What sane person now wouldn’t happily go back to pre-coup Ukraine?
RT showing video which claims to show helicopters being used in the attack.
http://rt.com/news/160804-military-checkpoint-attack-ukraine/
Can you call it a war yet?
Barroso has got his wish, despite his own country being on the edge of total anarchy and economic disaster!
“YouGov poll predicts UKIP European election lead”
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/yougov-poll-predicts-ukip-european-election-lead-1-3420220
I’ve voted UKIP. Unfortunately, they only had one candidate in the local elections, so I gave the Conservatives the other two votes. Not too happy with myself, but at least it should mean lower Council Tax than the alternatives.
The EU election paper was folded in half when handed to me, but the UKIP part was unfolded at the bottom. I’m not sure if that breaks the rules or not.
sheesh! are these poll booth attendants
“origami” experts, I had a lady and a man in front of me
folded over double for both, likewise for myself.
a little misleading too …
First up a similar independence party from the UK, 😀
UKIP s near the bottom …
Perhaps the “establishment” were hoping for a few “should ve gone to Specsavers” moments from the unaware, to assist in the conspiracy.
(well … they ve been doing it for a month, why stop on polling day?).
“Forget Ukip and these staggeringly irrelevant European elections” Just read that as the title on the GUARDIAN on-line by James Ball (who looks as if hes related to Scott by the picture). The Guardianistas have already started to ignore that stupid thing called… erh DEMOCRACY. Don’t like the result? To hell with it. What the stupid proles want is of no consequence…
Those who are concerned about the fairness of UK elections might want to see this
Click to access 20100525%20COT%20Final%20Report.pdf
It’s a 2010 report by Commonwealth observers on the UK election process.
Inter alia, recommending
* identification of voters should be improved – for example through the use of identification at the point of registration, the use of identification at polling stations and markers to indicate that people have voted.
* Indelible ink pens rather than pencils should be available for use in all polling stations.
* There should be a better process of verification of postal ballots in order to close the loopholes in the system. While the Team welcomed postal voting as a method to enable
more people to vote, Team members felt that the system remained vulnerable, despite recent changes in Electoral Law.
Obviously nothing has been done to improve matters. Combine that with gerrymandered constituencies, a partisan state broadcaster, a partisan press, and low voter turnout and you have one of the more shambolic electoral systems in the First World.
Meanwhile, the complacent BBC reckon the only issue is with whether or not people should take selfies
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27486392
Much has to be done, not least everyone’s votes should have equal value. But Labour wanted to hang on to their 40 seat ‘false-start’ advantage in any election.
As has been pointed out elsewhere, that gerrymandering of the electoral boundaries was dismissed by a Labour MP as ‘more people turning out to vote Tory in rural constituencies and a quirk of the electoral system.
It wasn’t surprising therefore to hear those words repeated, by BBC staffers, stated as a matter of fact (it’s just the way it is) in the past week or so, both on the DP and on Today.
They don’t like democracy in the BBC
PS: I have a postal vote, work always seemed to take me away at election time. The application process and scrutiny does seem to be tighter than it was.
It is utterly criminal of Wavy Davy not to have delivered boundary changes.
To give Cameron credit (not much is due), he would have delivered the boundary changes for equally populated constituencies except Clegg blocked it, without Libdem support they couldn’t have passed it.
Cameron tried to. He could not because the Liberals reneged on their agreement to do so.
I’d like to see Clegg and Miliband put under pressure with a #fairvotes campaign – getting them to explain why they wish to retain this democratic outrage.
Perhaps the BBC will ask them
VIDEO: ELECTORAL RULES BREACHED IN TOWER HAMLETS
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/22/VIDEO-electoral-tower-hamlets
“The polls are open in Europe—will voters actually show up?”
http://qz.com/212210/the-polls-are-open-in-europe-will-voters-actually-show-up/
“Looking for exit polls?”
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/8834
Advice from the Electoral Commission:-
“The law relating to obtaining information in polling stations and disclosing such information is complex. Given the risk that someone taking a photo inside a polling station may be in breach of the law, whether intentionally or not, our advice is that you should not allow photos to be taken inside polling stations.”
Obviously one rule for us and one for the BBC.
“It wasn’t us that took it guv!”
So what do all your ‘journalists’ do then?
BBC 10 o’clock News carried a report from their man in the Hague on the Dutch Euro-elections taking place today – he talked about the competition for votes between “the Far Right” and “the Radical Left”, a form of words I can’t help feeling betrays a distinct sympathy for the latter.
Fucking Question time!
Number One item: Is UKIP the most racist and everything-else-ist party EVER??!!
I lasted eight minutes. Amazing how many people want to come to Britain and how many of its human imports express an interest in sticking around to see it reformed considering how sinister and irredeemably-prejudiced it is by their applauded-to-the-rafters account.
Loved the effeminate young lad on the panel pretending to be a right-on dyke, or summat. Very original. Perrier Award material.
Ah yes; “Jack”, the “anti-poverty campaigner” (who the hell is FOR poverty?)
Poverty in the UK ? There’s no such thing !
Try India if you want to see real poverty !
Yes 6 pro immgration panelists (inc Dimbo) and the hand picked audience against one. What a smug prat Tristrum Hunt is, he won’t be so smug on Sunday….
The dyke a truly dreary monotonal rentagob.
If my memory serves me well she was held up as a poster girl for the poor, living on fresh air, but when caught giving a foul mouthed rant, Sainsbury’s who rushed in to use her in their ad’s dropped her like a hot potato. Still good enough for bbbc though.
The carefully selected and perfectly representative BBCQT audience appears to be almost entirely missing the 25 – 30% of the population who have just voted UKIP.
How very mysterious………….
The groans from the audience when Neil Hamilton raised today’s factual imigration figures don’t rest easy on me, is the audience full of SWP and UAF plants?
Would any of us be surprised if there was informal collusion between the audience vetters and local cells of such organisations?
Not at all.
Perhaps they share a common purpose…………….
Newsnight on BBC2. Yasmenopausalnightmare is shouting down all other view points.
Fucking brilliant. They just introduced a steel band and then cut away to the weather. So disrespectful. I’m still laughing.
Tried a bit of QT but gave up. They have not got a clue .Little Tristam was particularly annoying. Typical of his class. Arrogant and self absorbed. The Liberal seemed to half understand that insulting the voters is not sensible. As for the rest apart ,from Neil Hamilton, secondraters with kneejerk reactions and something only they would regard as thought out opinions.
The BBC on the mark as usual.
”Tried a bit of QT but gave up”
Unbearable programme, watched Kellys Heroes on ITV 4 instead, more enjoyable. The best bit, the Tiger tank !!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27484940
I don’t remember hearing very much about this story, Gabby Logan being involved in the same tax avoidance scheme that Gary Barlow was.
No calls by a rabid bunch of lefties to resign, or hand back even the tax, let alone anything else.
Yet another example of hypocritical BBC presenters doing exactly what the corporation so vociferously condemns in others but not when their own staff are doing it.
Just watching the voting results on BBc Chukka still attacking Farage about being wascist. Obviously they haven’t learned the lesson. All in all looking like the establishment are on track for a kicking.I’m off to bed now
It’s funny how black Labour MPs accuse Farage of being racist, maybe they are racist against Farage and the English!
That’s all they’ve got left, shrieking the ” R ” word.
It’s like some sort of Tourettes.
A brilliant analogy David. I’ll be using that a lot around my lefty friends and getting it out on the internet. 😎
Game show Nicky interviewing a UKIP person on R5 at 7:30ish was keen to know whether UKIP could retain the BNP vote. When the UKIP man protested the poisonous tw*t said “Well their vote has gone somewhere”
Meanwhile over at North west the regional news announce”The anti-European UKIP party” on the election report. Nothing like being negative then. Looks like a day of damage limitation then.
Yes, they could have said *The Pro British UKIP*, but never do. And why do they keep on saying the “UKIP party”. That would be like saying the United Kingdom Independence Party party. Daft. Party on then!
8:30 update North West has dropped the “Anti European UKIP” from the script.
According to the BBC and thereby the Labour Party (or is it the other way round) there is a cost of living crisis. If this is the case then how come the high street shops have had a spring boom time? Yet more lefty falsehoods?
Matthew Amralliwalla (sp?) on BBC News 24 can’t get his tiny, metropolitan, out of touch, progressive, middle class mind round why, oh why, UKIP has done so well despite the 24/7 negative coverage leading up to the election. It’s a real puzzle, he muses.
On planet BBC, it’s just a given that UKIP is a bunch of racists, sexists, homo-ists, poor-people-ists, Euro-ists, puppy-and-kitten-ists who nobody in their right mind would vote for. Then BAM! 25% or more of the population vote for them including – OH MY GOD! – loads of voters that Weird Ed is supposed to own.
Give me strength.
BBC 5live Panto Campbell interviews a UKIPs P Nuttall
1/. Panto Patronises, Worrayergonna do about the bins eh!
2/. UKIP Voters are poorly educated, white, and old (intimates the North)
UH OH! 😀 whereas London you see, is better educated? (shakes head) and richly? diverse?.
3/. Can UKIP could retain the BNP vote?.
Panto sneers “their vote has gone somewhere”
1hr 9mins
the link. 1hr 9mins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043ws52
BBC TV Lunch Time News:
Jeremy Vine presented analysis of gains and losses. He repeated that UKIP have caused ‘damage’ to the other parties.
Why use the word ‘damage’? It implies a negative force of destruction. Oh, wait… maybe that’s the BBC thinking?
BBC.1 Breakfast … S (fanny) Fanshawe.
This patronising beebot with the look of a failed drag queen, goes all out.
Look I m sorry, but the electorate is wrong
Its not Immigration, its not the EU, its not the electorates
distrust of political establishment.
UKIP didn t do well in London you see …. its happy clappy diversity here, so it s no no to Nigel …. girlfriend!.
The “Political Class” have to tell the electorate they re wrong?.
meeeow! … wrong week?
I m still seeing No10 s Toryboys, even this very morning saying that they listen???? (that ll be a first 😀 ) …
As they just bleat on exactly the same anti poor, anti vulnerable, despicable, divisive bile as before.
Not in Beeboids’ political interests to dwell on this?:-
‘Telegraph’ (£)-
“‘Stolen election’ in the heart of London.
“Andrew Gilligan reports from Tower Hamlets, where the borough’s extremist-linked mayor Lutfur Rahman has been elected for a second term”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10867666/Stolen-election-in-the-heart-of-London.html